ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,313, issued on March 4, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Virtual sensors" was invented by Stephen Scott Trundle (Falls Church, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual sensor technology, in which a camera is controlled to capture at least one configuration image of an area monitored by a monitoring system and input is received that defines one or more characteristics of the at least one configuration image that enable sensing of an event in the area. Based on the received input, configuration data used in sensing the event is generated and stored. After storage of the configuration data, the camera is controlled to ca...